The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 104
‘I want a boy to tend my cattle,’ he said abruptly, ‘as the one I had has run away.
Who acts: I, boy · What happens: want, tend, say, have, run away · To what, where: boy, cattle, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 boy | det |
| 5 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tend | mark |
| 7 | tend | tend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tend | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | abruptly | abruptly | ADV | _ | 13 said | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 run | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 run | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | acl:relcl |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 run | aux |
| 23 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 run | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | I | a boy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tend not said to happen | to-infinitive | a boy not said here | my cattle | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | boy | abruptly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | past | I | the one not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | ||||
| 5 | run away | present · perfect · passive | the one | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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